The Blue Whale
The Blue Whale is the largest living mammal, growing to up to 100 feet long. Their weight can be up to 200 tons! The average weight 238,000 lbs. The blue whale consumes 6-7 tons of shrimp like crustaceans or know as krill a day in the summer and for the other 8 month it survives on little food and mostly its stored fat. a Blue whale lives and average life of 80 to 90 years old...about a standard human life expectancy.
extra facts.
The blue whale is the largest living creature on the earth. it is bigger than 25 elephants put together. A calf(a baby whale) at birth is about 23 feet long...about the size of a small buss. Some people also say that the sounds that a blue whale can put off can travel thousands of miles through the water...some say whales can communicate across the ocean.
The size of a Blue Whale in comparison of a school bus.
The Blue Whale
The Blue Whale is the largest living mammal, growing to up to 100 feet long. Their weight can be up to 200 tons! The average weight 238,000 lbs. The blue whale consumes 6-7 tons of shrimp like crustaceans or know as krill a day in the summer and for the other 8 month it survives on little food and mostly its stored fat. a Blue whale lives and average life of 80 to 90 years old...about a standard human life expectancy.
extra facts.
The blue whale is the largest living creature on the earth. it is bigger than 25 elephants put together. A calf(a baby whale) at birth is about 23 feet long...about the size of a small buss. Some people also say that the sounds that a blue whale can put off can travel thousands of miles through the water...some say whales can communicate across the ocean.
ORDER:Cetacea
SUBORDER:Mysticeti
FAMILY:Balaenopteridae
GENUS: Balaenoptera
SPECIES:musculus